The Complete Cook. By Lilian Whaling. Mustrated. (Methuen and Co.
7s. 6d. net.)—This is a book that we can warmly recommend to intelligent, but inexperienced, housewives. No detail seems to have been forgotten. With one or two curious exceptions, the advice Miss Whaling gives is excellent ; but when she recom- mends cider as a temperance drink we can only suppose that she does not live in an apple-growing county. The chapters on "Economy in the Kitchen" and "What to Do when Things Go Wrong" are very good, as are also the clear directions as to mixing, stirring, beating, &e. More than half the book is taken up with recipes of all kinds, clearly printed and well arranged, and there are some appetising photographs of delicious dishes which make even a reviewer feel hungry. The advice as to feeding invalids and babies is good ; but the suggestion as to testing the contents of a feeding-bottle is not to be recommended.
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